Word: tans
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...began with a service in Memorial Church, which included the performance of songs in both English and Chinese. The songs were followed by a few words by Gang Li, the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital Chinese Students and Scholars Association (MGH CSSA), who helped organize the event. Yue Tan D. Tang, a Ph.D. student in Economics, and School of Public Health professor Jennifer Leaning then spoke about the disaster and China’s response. [SEE CORRECTION...
...harder as a storyteller. EKACHAI UEKRONGTHAM: From an artist's point of view it's always good to have no censorship, but in the real world that doesn't happen anywhere. There's some kind of censorship always - if not by the state, then by the society. BRIAN GOTHONG TAN: The suppression in Singapore and Asia in general works for me. It's one of the reasons why, after I graduated from L.A., I moved back to Singapore - because for me art is always about pushing boundaries or testing the limits and making people see things differently. It's actually...
...basically it. UEKRONGTHAM: Part of that relaxation could also be economically driven, because the government has expressly said that it wants to increase the GDP from the media sector by a certain percentage, and part of that is that they need to be seen as allowing freedom and creativity. TAN: Yeah, Singapore is quite uptight in some senses. But I think the government is realizing that. Education has a lot to do with that as well - the kids of this generation are so in touch with everything. With the Internet and all that, it's so easy for them...
...Speaking of festivals, how did last month's Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) leave you feeling about the state of local moviemaking? TAN: Their films are really good. There's a new wave there. UEKRONGTHAM: Suddenly we have a Singapore Panorama section [of local features]. KHOO: If you look at the short-film competition, which started about 12 years ago, there were very few entries then, but now they get over 100. There are all these polytechnics having film courses. I've noticed this whole change in how many young Singaporeans that want to be filmmakers want to direct...
...there's this whole army of filmmakers with a lack of life experience but with technical skills. TAN: It is quite an intriguing combination. Exposure to life is really important. That is the problem in Singapore. There is so much social control. It starts with education, the way we are groomed as citizens. We are taught to follow rules all the time and it is really hard to see out of that box. For me, I am lucky because I was born outside of Singapore, so I can see the box really clearly. As an artist, I don't have...